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Vocabulary Multiple Choice. Worksheet 21.

Deciding between different, similar vocabulary items becomes ever more difficult as students progress to higher levels in their English studies. For each question below, choose the best answer from the four possibilities. Think also about why the other three choices are NOT possible.

1. You seem a strong candidate Mr. Williams but you don't quite ___________ our requirements for this post.
a. meet
b. reach
c. achieve
d. gain

2. ___________ by both financial and emotional problems, the father decided he had had enough and slipped away from the house quietly at dawn.
a. pressured
b. beset
c. filled
d. drowned

3. I felt let down by a very unsupportive boardroom, ___________ by the very chairman himself, Wilson Gray. I had no choice but to resign.
a. at most
b. not least
c. notwithstanding
d. henceforth

4. If they ask you about me, don't ___________ that you know where I am, OK?
a. let on
b. give in
c. give on
d. let in

5. Just remember that August in Australia is ___________ with a North American December, though it doesn't snow!
a. on level
b. on a par
c. evens
d. compared

6. A(n) ___________ diamond such as this would fetch over one hundred thousand if put up for auction.
a. error free
b. consistent
c. flawless
d. persistent

7. Only when explorers finally penetrated the ___________ forests of Central and South America were these ruins revealed to the world at last.
a. solid
b. heavy
c. tangled
d. dense

8. The average Siberian Stoat family group ___________ one male, two or three females and the young of all of the females.
a. consists
b. constituting
c. comprises
d. makes up